All-women polling booths in every LS constituency of Maharashtra

As per the Election Commission’s (EC) directions to set up polling stations entirely managed by women, such booths will be set up in all 40 Lok Sabha seats of the state

ELECTIONS: An all-ladies surveying stall will be set up in each Lok Sabha supporters of Maharashtra amid the following month’s surveys in an offered to urge increasingly female voters to practice their establishment.

According to the Election Commission’s (EC) bearings to set up surveying stations totally overseen by ladies, such corners will be set up in each of the 40 Lok Sabha seats of the express, a discharge issued by the race office here said.

“Each one of those sent at such surveying stations – police, decision officers and different workers – will be ladies. These corners, an activity towards sex uniformity and including ladies’ interest in the discretionary procedure, will be called as ‘Sakhi Matdan Kendras’,” it said.

According to the EC’s rules, there would be no particular shading code for such surveying stations, the discharge stated, including that their security will be a top need.

Delicate surveying stations will be kept out of this trial while those close tehsil office or police headquarters will be viewed as overseen by ladies, it said.

Rangoli and other fine arts would be utilized to make these stalls increasingly appealing and to lay accentuation on tidiness, it included.

The quantity of ladies voters this time hasincreased to 911 for every 1,000 men, as against 889 for every 1,000 men in 2014, according to official figures.

Out of the all out 8,73,29,910 voters in the state, 4,57,01,877 are men, 4,16,25,950 ladies and 2,083 third sex voters.

Lok Sabha decisions will be held in Maharashtra in four stages on April 11, 18, 23 and 29 and outcomes will be announced on May 23.

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